I've been working on an application that uses several windows. Now I found
out that the garbage collector is unable to destroy attributes belonging
to a window when it is closed. In fact, it feels like the same window would
be opened again when I'm trying to open a new instance of the same window...
I've been using dispose() to close them. Anyone have any ideas of what to
do??

Thanx in advance!
Thomas N

04-02-2002, 02:38 AM

Re: My application with several JFrame-windows eats resources

"Thomas" <thomas.nase@netikka.fi> wrote:
>
>I've been working on an application that uses several windows. Now I found
>out that the garbage collector is unable to destroy attributes belonging
>to a window when it is closed. In fact, it feels like the same window would
>be opened again when I'm trying to open a new instance of the same window...
>I've been using dispose() to close them. Anyone have any ideas of what to
>do??
>
>Thanx in advance!
>Thomas N

After calling dispose() call your Frame's finalize() method. You could then
call System.gc() for explicit garbage collection. I think this is right.
It seemed to work for me.